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have seldom been more touched than when I looked on
the anguish in the face of that poor man, and the tears
coursing down his cheeks, as he utterfed these words.
I need not tell the Christian reader what I endeavoured
to say. Shortly afterwards the Cashmeerees left Ranee
Khet, and [this man with them. I could not find out
where they went, and I have lost all trace of my friend.
A considerable part, sometimes the greater part, of the
cold weather was given to itineracy. Some winters we
went down to the foot of the hills to prosecute mission
work among the large population found there at that
season. We moved from place to place, erecting our
tent in central spots, from which within a radius of two
or three miles we could visit populous villages, some
built of rough stones, but most composed of grass sheds.
I was generally accompanied by a catechist. We ^ad
many opportunities of speaking to the people on the
highest subjects. Not infrequently we met persons
whom we had met in the hills, and then we were surfe of
a special welcome. Once I came on a party of Doms,
tailors, whom I had seen a short time previously, and I
said to them : " As you have no cattle, and do not
cultivate the ground, what has brought you down ? " To
which I got the reply: " We have come in search of the
sun." This gave me an opportunity of speaking of that
Sun in whose warmth and light their spirits might dwell
at all times, in all places. I endeavoured to set up
schools in the Bhabhur, but had not any encouraging
measure of success-
There was much which was pleasant and exhilarating
in this movement from place to place, and in camping
under the trees: but it was at times very fatiguing, and
in bad weather very unpleasant More than once we